Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2020/Uganda

WIKI LOVES AFRICA 2020 IN UGANDA SUMMARY PAGE

What is Wiki Loves Africa?

Wiki Loves Africa is an annual contest where anyone across Africa can contribute media that relates to that year's theme to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wiki Loves Africa encourages participants to contribute media (photographs, video and audio) that illustrate the specific theme for that year. Each year the theme changes. Each year's theme is chosen by the community to be a universal, visually-rich and culturally-specific topics (for example, markets, rites of passage, festivals, public art, cuisine, natural history, urbanity, daily life, notable persons, etc). The theme for the 2020 contest was Africa on the Move or Transport, which started on 15th February 2020 and closed on 15th of April 2020.

What was contributed ?

Pictures ! audios ! videos !

Africa on the Move! encouraged the submission of visual representations of movement, migration or transportation, whether local or regional, by path, road, sea, or air, self-propelled, or by animal, natural or mechanical means. Submissions could also capture the historical or contemporary structures that have been created to facilitate movement or the transportation of people, goods, or animals.

Top 5 images in 2020

• 
  Train Transport, central Kampala
  Photo by Kyakwera
• 
  Location tagged, in Kampala
  Photo by MOGGA DIMA
• 
  Transportation, carrying transport
  Photo by SharonDawn
• 
  A boy riding a bicycle through the rain
  Photo by Joshua Mirondo
• 
  Young Ugandan bicycle engineer
  Photo by Kennedy Elijah

• Please note
  • The Usergroup is getting in touch with the top winners who have not yet been officially handed their prizes. The delays have been partly due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.
  • If the winners contacted, do not respond by 22 May 2020, their prizes will be provided to the next winning images in the queue.
    • The authors of the initial first and second winning photos were not responsive.
      • Their photos are also a subject of debate, having been used else where, contrary to the competition rules.

See as well winners in other countries : Commons:Wiki Loves Africa 2020/National winners

What prizes were up for grabs?

There are several prizes for grabs, both nationally and internationally. For international prizes, please see the international page on commons.

At the national level, there are 3 main prizes for Wiki Loves Africa 2020, and there will be two additional prize categories for photos and media.
The national prizes are:

• 1^st prize: UGX 400000
• 2^nd prize: UGX 300000
• 3^rd prize: UGX 200000

Additional categories like:

• Prize for a community voted image from the top 10 (excluding the 3 winning photos)
• Prize for best quality video (audio and visual quality and storytelling)

Each participant will receive a certificate of participation

Local events and activities

Dates	venue	Activity	Status
		February
15.02.2020	Goethe-Zentrum Kampala	Competition Launch	[OK]
20.02.2020	Kampala city	Group Photo hunt	[OK]
29.02.2020	Goethe-Zentrum Kampala	Group upload session	[OK]
		March
14.03.2020	Goethe-Zentrum Kampala	Award of Prizes (POSTPONED due to COVID-19)	[OK]
		April
14-15.04.2020	Online	Individual upload of own photos from drives, cameras, phones, flash disks, e.t.c , no gatherings	[OK]
16.04.2020	Online	Meeting for the Jury selection criteria	[OK]
24-28.04.2020	Online	Jury (panel) selection process	[OK]
		May
07.05.2020	Online	Selection of (national) winning photos	[OK]
08.05.2020	Online	Award of prizes	[OK]
12.05.2020	Online	Final meta updates and documentation	[OK]

Team members

The competition was organised by volunteers from the Wikimedia Community Usergroup in Uganda

• Geoffrey Kateregga
• Sandra Aceng
• Ssebaggala Douglas
  • Ndahiro derrick (Also with the Wikimedia Community in Kigali, Rwanda)

Other volunteer participants from the community in Uganda.

No	Names	User account
1	Brenda Mulinda	Namulinda Brenda
2	Elisha Muwanguzi	Elisha Muwanguzi
3 *	Joshua Mirondo	Joshua Mirondo
4	Joyce Nabasirye	Joynabasirye
5	Kwera Faith	Kyakwera
6	Mogga Moses Dima	MOGGA DIMA
7	Mubiru Shafik	Fiktube
8 *	Sharon Arinaitwe	SharonDawn
9	Tumwine Kenneth	Tumwinekenneth
10**	Other individual participants	Users in Uganda

^* Added after emerging in the top 5, and joining usergroup activities.

^** Names that are not listed, did not join usergroup activities, but took part individually.

Jury

• Akena Hillen
• Opio Ivan
• Hillary Musundi
• Samson Ngumenawe
• Ssebaggala Douglas

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